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(b) Yu Shouhai (

Shouhai(寿海)

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-13.

Department

the HKMAO,

Yu Shouhai was the Deputy Director of the Fourth

(Secretarial and Administration Department) of

State Council. We had dinner with him on one

occasion, he was not friendly and was obviously unprepared

to have any substantive exchanges with us. I also noticed

that Chen Bengling, Li Quanli and the usually confident and

voluble Chang Hsiaoping were tense and cautious in front of

Yu. I was under the impression that Yu was a powerful man

inside the HKMAO who might be responsible for more than

purely secretarial and administrative work.

Administrative Arrangements

14.

Administrative arrangements

were generally fine.

A few noteworthy points and comments are listed below:

(a) I had the chance to accompany SHW in meeting Chen

Lizhong

Macao

(P), the director of the Hong Kong

Centre and a former member of the

Sino-British Land Commission, during our stay in

Beijing.

We had a casual chat and the delegation

were given complementary copies of Hong Kong

newspapers of the previous day afterwards;